Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] memfd: improve userspace warnings for missing exec-related flags

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Tue Sep 05 2023 - 15:47:59 EST


* Andrew Morton:

> OK, thanks, I'll revert this. Spamming everyone even harder isn't a
> good way to get developers to fix their stuff.

Is this really buggy userspace? Are future kernels going to require
some of these flags?

That's going to break lots of applications which use memfd_create to
enable run-time code generation on locked-down systems because it looked
like a stable interface (“don't break userspace” and all that).

Thanks,
Florian